ON ENDINGS

Don't you hate it when you read a book that seems all along to have been one long set-up for the sequel? Or worse, an ending that comes abruptly, just when you were really getting to like the characters. And though I enjoy some ambiguity with endings, what about those endings that are so ambiguous that they fail to satisfy? Well, I mention all this because I just received a letter from an editor requesting a re-write of one of my middle-grade fiction mss, and one of the things mentioned was the ending. Today, channel your muses my direction and help me get this one right!,